Do Good While Looking Great

It doesn't get much simpler than this . . . you purchase an awesome limited edition designer t-shirt, you look fantastic, and money goes to some wonderful charities.

thehinitiave is a charitable design label founded in 2006 by Li Ling Ng. It provides its charity partners a different way of fundraising and raising awareness through fashion. And, the best bit is that practically all the profit from each sale goes to charity!

Cast a vote for Charity CHAMPS

Charity CHAMPS' mission is to get more people doing good in small ways by promoting microphilanthropy amongst youth, the most important, but least engaged demographic in philanthropy.



You can help them by voting for them in the Aviva Community Fund Competition - the most popular ideas will get the opportunity to be funded with the $500,000 Aviva Community Fund.

Vote here (you can vote every day) and help Charity CHAMPS boost Microphilanthropy!

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Fashion Fights Poverty

Fashion Fights Poverty's mission is to raise awareness for initiatives that encourage and support creative, effective, and sustainable means of challenging poverty.

Fashion Fights Poverty recognises "designers and organizations who embrace the powerful potential of creativity and design to address issues of poverty by adhering to such principles as fair trade, equitable compensation and the use of environmentally-sustainable materials."

It also promotes responsible consumerism and helps connect ethical designers and the growing population of socially-conscious shoppers.

FFP has supported some fantastic charities such as Nest, Aid to Artisans and BeadForLife.

Keep up with their good works on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace.

1% Can Change the World

It doesn't take a lot to change the world. With as little as 1% of your yearly income you could help end global poverty or reverse the environmental impact of consumerism. For most of us, giving just $1 out of every $100 we earn won't make a noticeable difference to our own standard of living, but when put together with the donations of others our $1 can truly change the world!

My 1 Percent is a community that exists to help individuals reverse their environmental impact and save the planet. It is launching this month, October 2009, and will help you donate a portion of your yearly income to a network of environmentally focused non-profit organisations.

One of the features of My 1 Percent that I really love is that you can set yourself an annual donation goal and track your progress against it. You can make one off donations or set up recurring donations - which will make achieving your annual goal easier.

Sign up for updates and join the My 1 Percent community when it launches this month!

Sartorial Saturday: Eco Friendly Fashion Feeds the Hungry

Styles by Stiles - not just another celebrity fashion label!



The clothes might be sold out, but you can still donate to The Lunchbox Fund - a a great organization which provides impoverished children in the township schools of Alexandra and Soweto what is often their only meal of the day.

Carnival of Digital Philanthropy Volume 10

Welcome to the October 10, 2009 edition of carnival of digital philanthropy.

Please Stumble the posts you like, or submit them to other social bookmarking services. Let's promote each other, as well as this blog carnival and help more people to GET THEIR GIVE ON!

Gin G. presents To Give onto Others posted at Sense Scribe. Learn about how people are raising money for charity from the comfort of home!

Check out the Be the Change Bookclub - the bookclub for readers who want to make a difference. The November read is 'Half the Sky' (you can win a copy here). We'll be reading and discussing this great book - and raising money for Mercy Corps Programmes that help women around the world.

That's it for October's edition.

Share your fundraising know-how, or spread the word for your favourite cause. Submit your blog article to the October edition of the Carnival of Digital Philanthropy using our carnival submission form. Past posts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Take Action Tuesday: Top 10 Online Petition Sites

Image by bobster855 via Flickr

Got a burning issue on your mind, something you want to see changed? Why not start a petition! Its a great way to build awareness and rally support for a cause.

Here's a few great places to start an online petition to change the world:

1. Petition Spot
   An easy to use petition site. Allows you to share your petition, or a petition you have signed on twitter, and has a stylish widget you can add to your blog.
   
   
2. Act.ly
   Far and away the most striking of the Twitter petition sites! With its read and yellow colour scheme it is definitely eyecatching!
   
   It doesn't just stop at looking good though. It is easy to use and has a couple of great features: 1. You can direct your petition at a specific Twitter account and Act.ly will track how long it takes for them to respond, and 2. It offers and embeddable 'Tweet This' button that will help your petition go viral. YAY!!
   
   
3. GoPetition
   GoPetition has active petitions in more than 75 countries! And offers a great set of tools for managing your petition - from filtering swear words to search engine optimisation!
   
   
4. The Petition Site
   The Care2 Petition Site has the power of the huge Care2 community behind it. Over a million petitions have been created with more than 39 million signatures collected between them!
   
   
5. TinyPetition
   Simple, easy and set up by the good folk at PetitionSpot.
   
   
6. Petition Online
   Its not the most beautiful petition site, but it has collected more than 81 million signatures and has tens of thousands of active petitions!
   
   
7. iPetitions
   Offers both free and premium memberships. It has some great tools that allow you to customize your question list, set up filters to minimize fraud, and download a real-time database of signatures for your petition.
   
   
8. Twitition
   According to Mashable, this is the most simple of Twitter petition sites. All you need to do is create a title and description for your petition and its done! The site tracks all the tweets about you petition. Easy!
   
   
9. Twibbon
   Create a Twibbon for your Twitter Avatar to raise awareness about your cause.
   
   
10. PledgeBank
    Not your average petition site - more like a peer pressure campaign tool. You set up a challenge to recruit others to take part in a call to action. No one is obliged to do anything until the target number of pledges is obtained.